Sonya6000 photography

Sony's A6000 is a long-lived model. Since the publication of 20 14, it has not only continued to sell well, but even introduced new colors two years ago. After launching A6300 and A6500 in the middle, Sony just positioned A6000 from a mid-level machine to an entry-level machine. Although A6000 is still a "sufficient" interchangeable lens camera, Sony finally launched A6 100 as a continuation of A6000 recently, and recently experienced this new entry-level model.

▲ A6 100 and A6000 are highly similar in appearance.

▲ The turntable configuration still has a top turntable and a rear turntable.

▲ It's a pity that the charging interface maintains microUSB.

The author thinks that the level of A6 100 is also related to the characteristics of A6000. A6 100 also uses plastic materials instead of A6400 and A6600 alloy bodies. The overall key configuration is similar to A6000, and the design of W battery and microUSB charging interface is maintained, but the LCD flip mechanism on the back is increased.

▲ There is an NFC tag at the handle to assist pairing.

In the new A6000 series, Sony started to use the same 24.2MP sensor, 425-point hybrid focusing configuration and 0.02 second fast focusing from A6 100, A6400 and A6600. Only through different engine restrictions, such as the highest ISO, video recorder performance and other specifications, A665433 is excluded from the aspects of body material, video HLG format support, LCD and electronic viewing window resolution.

▲ A6 100 supports animal pupil tracking.

Although the overall characteristics of A6 100 are quite close to A6000, it has improved a lot compared with A6000, which has a five-year difference in core technical specifications, due to the adoption of brand-new photosensitive elements and engines. The most significant difference is the function of supporting pupil focusing, which is also the first function introduced from A6400. This function can be used not only when shooting people, but also to identify the pupils of animals, which is quite convenient for shooting dynamic subjects.

▲ The rear button configuration keeps the configuration inherited by NEX series.

The operating sense of A6 100 is familiar. After all, the overall design inherits the main configuration of the classic fuselage NEX-7 in the NEX era. The electronic observation window is similar to A6000, 1.44 million pixels, although compared with A6400, A6600' s 2.359 million pixels are a bit poor, but it is also useful for novices.

▲ If there is no eye mask, it is easy to touch your face by mistake, but wearing an eye mask will affect the screen.

Although it is a good idea to flip LCD and touch function, it is easier for consumers who are used to smart phone operation. However, if the author is more accustomed to using electronic windows, because of the design of A6000 series, it is easy for his face to touch the touch screen when using electronic windows. If it is set to touch to change the focus or touch to specify to lock the tracking focus, it is easy to make the focus deviate by mistake, which is more troublesome for individuals to use. Only by canceling touch focus or using an eye mask can it be avoided.

▲ This was taken in FE 18- 135mm, pupil tracking mode. Even continuous shooting wouldn't look him in the face.

Compared with A6000, A6 100 has made remarkable progress in focusing system, although it is a bit unfair. After all, the gap between the two models has reached five years, but the focusing speed and situation of A6 100 are satisfactory in 80% cases. Only a few special environments are out of focus, but most of them show that they can't focus in a fairly short time and won't waste time trying again and again.

However, A6 100 is quite convenient for users who often take pictures of people or pets. The pupil focus tracking system provided by A6 100 helps to capture clear facial expressions when shooting dynamic people or animals. For example, the author needs to film the speaker on this business trip. At this time, the pupil focus tracking system can prevent the focus from drifting to the speaker's clothes or background, and effectively improve the success rate of theme shooting.

▲ High ISO performance.

The matching lens is still the standard kit mirror 16-50mm electric mirror. After all, as an entry lens, the resolution performance is average, which means that the strength of the new photosensitive element cannot be exerted. However, the author believes that the greatest value of the new photosensitive element in image performance lies in the significant improvement of high sensitivity. Even under the rule of ISO 6400, image quality is still available.

▲ Even with Kit, the picture quality performance is quite good.

The performance of this high ISO is much better than that of the original A6000, and there will be no obvious post-processing feeling compared with the performance of the mobile phone at high sensitivity. But if you shoot night scenes, after all, many intermediate computers have handheld night scenes based on multiple image stacks, and A6 100' s image performance in handheld night scenes is relatively unfavorable, but this is also a situation that all cameras have to face at present. After all, the small-sized components of mobile phones are easier to complete than cameras with sensors and calculus.

▲ The performance of continuous tracking and focusing is remarkable.

Although the concept of smart phone based on processor and software defines the camera, it can really rival professional cameras in shooting quality and post-processing effect at first glance, but the camera still has the advantage of fine images in larger photosensitive elements and high-quality optical lenses, just to attract consumers to buy the camera, it needs to be more obviously different from the performance and operation sense of mobile phone shooting.

▲ Although the positioning is Sony's entry-level APS-C, its overall performance is not inferior to that of a quasi-professional camera.

As Sony's latest entry-level interchangeable lens camera, A6 100 can feel that Sony has positioned the interchangeable lens camera as a device that more professional users will be willing to buy. Its design is no longer like the simple model provided by the previous entry-level machines to try to attract novices. After all, the simple mode of the camera is not as intuitive as the touch interface of the mobile phone, at least it is too complicated for people who are used to taking pictures with smart phones. It is better to keep the characteristics of the electronic camera than to give in.

▲ It is different from mobile phone shooting by the characteristics of large photosensitive elements and the flexibility of interchangeable lenses.

A6 100 maintains a more advanced user interface, telling consumers the difference between PASM modes through simple prompts-of course, you can also choose to turn off these extra prompts. A6 100 relies on the basic performance equivalent to that of high-end computers, so that users who do not need advanced video recording or quasi-professional photography, but want to have the flexibility of interchangeable lens cameras, better image quality and physical camera interface than mobile phones.